[issue14654] More fast utf-8 decoding

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> added the comment:

Thank you, Antoine. It is interesting results, that on 64 bits greatly
accelerated the case, which on 32 bits sped up a little. It was the
pathology that a 2-byte to UCS1 was decoded in 1.5x slower than a 2-byte
to UCS2. Interestingly, a small acceleration for the other cases are
random deviations or consequential effect? Strange looks like the
difference for ascii-only text, this branch is not affected by the
patch. Except that the consequences of global optimization. The
deceleration of the decoding of the 4-byte data is expected.

Here is a patch, which is risky reception with signed numbers. For me,
it shows the acceleration of a few percent in comparison with the
previous patch. But I can not recommend it, it looks too hacker for such
a small improvement. It will not work on the exotic platforms where
signed numbers are implemented not as complement code (but Python is not
supports such platforms).

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